Chipotle sauce

A very versatile sauce can be used to toss in salads, cold or hot meat, fish or tofu. Can be added at the end of dishes such as casseroles, stews, tagines, serve it on the side as a dipping sauce or use it as a marinade.

Wheat berry salad

Tossed in some noodles for quick lunch.

There are 2 varieties of chipotle – morita and meco.

For this sauce it’s important to chose the right variety of chipotle, the hot one called morita like the one below from Tesco, deep dark red quite small in size.

The other variety of chipotle you can buy is a smokey very mild called meco and for this sauce it’s too subtle and gets lost so instead of a sauce with a kick you end up with a sauce tasting of sundried tomatoes.

The sauce depends on the tomatoes for bulk in order to cling on and distribute the spicy smoky flavour evenly throughout the dish. How deep red the sauce will be depends on the redness and quality of the tomatoes.

Toast the cumin seeds, it makes a difference to the flavour of the sauce.